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From the USNI archives:
Carrier landings are some of the most difficult and technical tasks for naval aviators. This was certainly the case in WWII. In July 1942, early in the campaign against the Japanese empire, a young pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after running to enemy fighters during a desperate attack on a key military installation. The pilot, Jek Tono Porkins, was the commander of Red Squadron for only a short time before crashing into the deck. He suffered substantial injuries but survived to take part in an attack on a similar installation two movies later. A photographer snapped just one picture of the crash:
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That’s some damn fine work…..
April 1st, 2010 at 11:51 amConsidering the effort it took to photoshop that pic of the X-Wing fighter into the original photo…yeah…it’s not easy. The guy seemed to have added the shadows in correctly too…
Someone’s got time on their hands…
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April 1st, 2010 at 1:10 pmAhhh, the force is strong with that one.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:23 pmActually he missed the top wing shadow on the bottom wing. But it a very good picture of what really happened in his mind!
April 1st, 2010 at 4:16 pmI wonder how the R2 did on the wooden decks. Might have been a bumpy roll!
April 1st, 2010 at 7:27 pmUmm– the Incom T-65 is a VTOL space aircraft and should be landed in such a mode when either in a terra OR space environment. Plus, the pilot did not read the training circulars which clearly state that “S-foils should only be deployed into an attack position before entering combat, and then closed for cruising for all others…”
The R-2 unit was not doing it’s job and should be scrapped immediately. They’re there to stop such events from happening.
Clearly a fleetwide stand down of all crews of Incom T-65 snub fighters to review launch and recovery procedures should happen immediately…
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:42 amexcellent snapshot
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April 5th, 2010 at 9:32 amMaybe…its a trap?
April 5th, 2010 at 9:45 amA long time ago in a galaxy not so far from here…
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April 27th, 2010 at 6:21 amThe only plane we had at the time that could take a Zero.
April 27th, 2010 at 12:13 pm